PharmAccess, PCN, PSN Launch Pharmacy Framework to Strengthen Healthcare Delivery

The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), in collaboration with PharmAccess Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that provides access to funding, and other stakeholders in the healthcare value chain have launched the Pharmacy Framework Manual to strengthen the value chain of the pharmaceutical industry by stimulating stronger regulation and providing access to affordable capital.

The framework, which was launched in Lagos recently, is expected to address the inadequate access to affordable capital for the procurement of pharmaceutical products at the last mile service delivery points that has posed a major challenge to the health sector particularly in rural and hard to reach areas where many of the low income earners live and work.

The Registrar, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), Elijah Mohammed, in his remarks said the framework is the outcome of PCN’s partnership with other stakeholders in the sector.

According to Mohammed, the partnership is borne out of the need to ensure adequate provision of equitable and sustainable access to life-saving medicines within the healthcare system, as enshrined in the National Drug Policy.

“The development of the framework was with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders and contents are in alignment with the policies and guidelines for the regulation of Community Pharmacists, Patent and Proprietary Medicines Vendors, Manufacturers, Importers and Wholesalers.”